Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1912 — Auto Bandits in Lake County. [ARTICLE]

Auto Bandits in Lake County.

Our republican friends are indeed in desperate straits. They are going to resurrect J. Frank Hanley and put him on the stump.

Congressman Crumpacker is to speak in Rensselaer next Monday evening from a stand-pat republican standpoint. Crump and Joe Oannon are stand-patters from away back, but unless we miss our guess both will be retired to private Ufa early next month.

Sunday’s Cincinnati Enquirer in a forecast of the political situation of ' the country, based on the, conclusions of a corps of trained observers, gives Wilson 385 of the 532 electoral votes; Taft 13; Roosevelt 36; doubtful, 98. Talft is given Ne\y Hampshire, New Mexico ’and Oregon; Roosevelt, Idaho, Michigan, North Dakota South Dakota and Washington. The doubtful states are Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, lowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Montana, Vermont, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. All the others are given to Wilson. This forecast is by the Enquirer and ...'■SS’ew York Herald joint Ly.

Last Friday morning five men in a black; automobile drove up in front of the L. Keilman Co., grain elevator and implement store at

Dyer, and while two of the part} inveigled Mr. Kielman, seventy-five years old, who was alone ; n the store at the time, to a rear room, on the plea of wanting to look at some, blades for a mower sickle, his accomplices went through the safe and stole some S3OO in ca;b. 'the robbery was discovered almost immediately - and the authorities notified, and although a number oi clews were followed they proved to be false ones and the bandits made good their escape.